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You know all but Yemen reopened on Sunday.Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook wrote that the word al-Qaeda should be translated as “the database”, and originally referred to the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen militants who were recruited and trained with CIA help to defeat the Russians..The US government trained, armed, funded and supported Osama bin Laden and his followers in Afghanistan during the cold war. With a huge investment of $3,000,000,000 (three billion US dollars), the CIA effectively created and nurtured bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network using American tax-payers money. Afghanistan is one of the world’s poorest countries, where such an enormous sum sum of money would have had extraordinary value.http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0228

Radish: VERYGOODPOINT! Since the chickenhawk in chief and his associate chickenhawk left office, the fear factor in America has been greatly, and rightly, reduced, except of course among our right-wing, bible-thumping, anti-Musllim, quaking under their sheets chicken-breathed commentators here at GC.

Again,once again, while I do NOT support all Obama’s actions, like even helping Europe get rid of the governments in North Africa without getting any of our troops killed, and letting Stevens follow through on his error in Benghazi, or over-doing domestic surveillance, just like “W”, and authorized in the Patriot Act, it is time to ignore those shaking in their boots, or trying to drum up false fears, like Hannity, Rush, and other right wing whackos like Beck, Boehner, and McConnell.

Nobody said there is no more war on terror. Perhaps a little more selectivity in how the term is used. Al Queda is on the run, but not defeated, as in eliminated. They never will be eliminated – its the nature of their tactics. I doubt to those killed at Fort Hood, the definition of how they were killed is of little relevance. Nor should it be of much relevance to anyone else.

I stand on what I said – what difference to the dead and the injured whether you call it terrorism or work-place violence? The results are the same that men were killed and injured while serving their country, and there can be no doubt it was by hostile fire. They paid the ultimate price so don’t get picky on the survival benefits – give them combat benefits if that is the best deal. The problem is slavishness to terminology and definitions and losing sight of the big picture. I’d be inclined to call it murder and attempted murder and avoid the label of terrorism, which too often is attributed to Muslims and exacerbates intolerance. But I would not allow the innocent victims to pay the price for faulty military bureaucracy. Loosen up the rules it that is required for fairness.

Your arrogance is obnoxious, but I’ll be patient. Firstly, you missed the nuance of my comments. I could elaborate, but there is a limit to my patience. Secondly, is your criteria for labelling an incident workplace violence or terrorism getting the maximum government benefits? What an interesting approach!

That’s not a definition, unless you mean that all terrorists must have traded emails with Al Awlaki, etc. That would be a set of one person, so I doubt that you mean that. A definition, please. You do know what a definition is and does, don’t you?

Justice Stewart’s comment was not worthy of an otherwise distinguished mind. (I didn’t know Potter Stewart, but I knew his brother well.) I gather that you are either unwilling or unable to present a definition of “terrorism” or “terrorist”. Okay. Not much point in further discussion if you can’t or won’t define your terms.

“……. It’s dishonest and disgusting, and he’s not worth talking to…….”.Once in a while I catch a whiff of independent thought, and then he reverts back to the party-line talking points. So maybe you’re right.

About Gary Markstein

Gary Markstein cut his cartooning teeth while doodling in the margins of his grade-school homework. Now he makes a living by skewering pompous public figures and politicians of every political stripe. Markstein is an artist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and was previously the cartoonist for the Tribune Newspapers in Arizona.